Excerpt from The Ledge on Bald Face Hat one stark naked side Of the moun tain which gave it its name Of Old Bald Face fronted full south. Scorched by sun and scourged by storm throughout the centuries, it was bleached to an ashen pallor that gleamed startlingly across the leagues of sombre, green-purple wilderness outspread below. From the base Of the tremendous bald steep stretched Off the interminable leagues Of cedar swamp, only to be traversed in dry weather or in frost. All the region behind the mountain face was an impenetrable jumble Of gorges, pinnacles, and Chasms, with black woods clinging in crevice and ravine and struggling up desperately towards the light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.